Posted on 05/15/2006 5:36:17 AM PDT by Quilla
Buckley's Firing Line was on NPR. If my memory serves me.
He was way above the heads of most Americans. And not entertaining unless you could appreciate his dry wit.
But Rush is unique. I doubt a Sean Hannity could have pulled it off.
BTW. Rush claims Buckley as his mentor during his intellectually formative years.
Well, I ain't William Saffire, and I have a feeling he probably won't see this--LOL!
Yes it's easy to make fun of liberals and their pretentions, as Rush skillfully does, because they're so irrational. The point of the article.
It is natural to claim objectivity if you can get away with it. Conservatives would do so if they dominated journalism.I disagree. Conservatives like Rush don't claim objectivity. What they do claim and insist upon, I might add, is rationality.
That's the essence of the article. A conservative argument is more rational than a liberal argument. Hence Rush's success in a format that demonstrates rationality and exposes irrationality.
I absolutely agree that a conservative argument is more rational, more modest and less arrogant and emotional than an anticonservative argument. But the point I was making is that it is natural for anyone who has never been subjected to contrary arguments to assume that their own beliefs are objective. Liberals have been in the position of being able to discount conservative ideas because their circular arguments are buttressed by a mutual admiration society of journalists assuring liberals that anticonservative news is "objective" and whatever happens to reinforce conservative beliefs "isn't news."Conservatives who heard that propaganda have had to sharpen their arguments and drop any which they cannot back up with logic. Conservatives would like to think and declare that they are objective, it's a natural subject human perspective. But they have known for half a century or more that the possibility of arguing from that premise is not available to them.
Maybe its me but I don't see this as a message; just an attitude. Anyone who doesn't see the USA as being the fault in the World is a fool. The only way to rectify the problems of the World is through liberal ascension. No plan, no ideas, just 'trust us'.
Sorry, but that is not a message to me, only a hype. That's been my point. The DimocRats have not been 'on message' for years because they really have no message to give.
Yes, like the bumper stickers you folks posted. They "think" in bumper stickers and speak in bumper stickers.
But bumper stickers serve another purpose also. I'm not an expert on cults, but I've read a bit about them and it seems cults all have little mantras they are taught to repeat when challenged.
This is "lalalalala I can't hear you lalalala..." to block out thoughts and questions dangerous to the "teachings", and at the same time it reinforces the "teachings". IOW a form of mind control by dulling and robotizing the mind and focusing it only on the "teachings".
I don't think it's a coincidence that the death cult requires 5 interruptions in every day wherever its followers may be in order to repeat their mantras and keep the cultists in line. Maybe that's why the liberals seem to feel so much empathy for what should be an enemy.
Oh, so true!
I think their main problem is that the more they brodcast their agenda the more it sounds like Coast to Coast with Art Bell.
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